Moveable Feast Cafe 2018/04/13 … Open Thread

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“Israel said it would deny entry to Dublin Mayor. Mac Donncha said he was unaware that he had been banned, and passed through immigration at the Tel Aviv airport because the ban order sent to immigration officials misspelled his name.”

He was attending a Palestinian conference, invited as a supporter by the Palestinians–no functioning airstrips in Gaza, of course, it is an open-air prison with neither entry nor exit except through the other place.

Russia is the defacto leader of the global resistance to the AngloZionist project.

This is a fact

Russia did not seek this role- and its obvious that it does not relish it either – but for whatever reason:, faith, providence, history, destiny, call it what you may, this role now belongs to Russia.

Despite its reluctance in accepting this role, humanity is expecting Putin and Russia to confront aggression in Syria.

No sane person wants a war between Russia and the US, but if war is being imposed on you what do you do ?

Russia must hang tough in Syria or it runs the risk of sending a message of weakness to the war-criminals, which will encourage only more brinksmanship and humiliation from them.

If North Korea had caved when Trump authorized the usage of the MOAB in Afghanistan or threatened “fire and fury”, US troops would probably be in Pyongyang today.

The North Koreans instead called his bluff and not only pressed on with their nuclear program, they accelerated it.

What happened?

They now possess the capacity to drive real fear into the cowards, by bringing the US mainland within range of their missiles.

Trump ended up looking incompetent and the US mow has to sit down with the North – which they said they never would.

Putin has hypersonic options, and the cowards are shitting their pants.

Thats why they are hoping that Russia gives them a free pass in Syria.

Putin must do no such thing!

The criminals must be confronted, even at the risk of a major war with all its consequences.

Please dont get me wrong,I dont say this lightly, because this will have negative implications for the entire planet, but if this is what it takes to get the lunatics back into the asylum, then so be it.

Selah

And while all this is currently playing out on Syrian soil, this was never about Syria per se.

S-400. Great handle. I agree with you on Russia being the defacto antidote to the AG empire.
I was born when Truman was president before he beat Dewey and not long after the Hiroshima dust settled.
I guess that means I’ve been alive and paying attention for awhile. Mark Twain said that if you don’t read the papers you are “uninformed”. If you read the papers you are “misinformed”. In 67′ I lay bleeding in a rice paddy because I was misinformed. No more.
North Korea, until recently, was under the control of an “entity” Q refers to as the “Clowns in America”. (CIA)
These “clowns” are not funny. They have nasty friends who supplied the missile tech and HEU for their bomb programs. Kim was “educated ” in Switzerland. Think what you may of Trump and who is around him. iF your opinion is based upon MSM, you most likely hate him. Understandable. Kim is no longer a threat as the “clowns” have been removed. If Killery had become president, this would not have been the case. Think “Uranium One”.
Syria; Assad, Putin, Hezbollah…. will win. Not easy as “clowns”, Pentagon, and others are on different scripts for different clients. They can’t and won’t win. Iran, like NK, has bad elements. They will be dealt with. The U,S. has REALLY bad elements. They are being dealt with. The Syria “attack”? No real damage. Tomahawks again exposed as old tech. Nobody killed. MSM gets to blather “Support our Troops!”. Trump dodges Comey. It’s all theater. A couple thousand years of “moneychangers” cannot be unwound overnight, but it is underway like never before. Russia IS the key. Putin was key to make that so. Trump is flawed. I am flawed. You are flawed. If we think a “saint’ is needed, humanity is doomed. Adversity does not build character, it reveals it. How’s yours?

Can we start a betting pool here? I’ve never read the rules. My bet is that exactly zero cruise missiles hit Damascus in 2018 with less than 20 israeli air strikes for the rest of the year.

Here’s why I think this: the US Showman in Chief has been epic these last couple weeks. The drum beats for war have been as good as 2003, I mean, this guy is way better than Bush II ever was, but this time it seems more bluster = less action. When he doesn’t say anything, something happens, and when he’s all bravado, then the PPPI goes flat. (best stat ever)

California state pensions–to remain above water–need the DOW to climb at least as fast as it has over the last five years. The last thing the orange clown needs is for stocks to drop and take pensions red just before midterms. He needs the stock market to stay up more than anything else. If its true that China has halted all treasury purchases, then we ain’t got time to blow up a bunch more industrial buildings and quietly reel them in.

In a trillion dollar world, a billion dollar trade war is television. However a shooting war with China would literally destroy US pensions, and his voter base overnight. Then via inflation the machine would implode from within. The US worker spoke economically and Donald’s whole job is to keep the pension ponzi afloat for four maybe eight years. That’s it. That’s his whole job. Really they still need to digest a country a year to keep the machine alive, but Assad broke that and now its all about short term survival.

Foreign buyers of US Treasuries have dropped 13% in the last month. The 10y rate spiked a few weeks back, then the national plunge-protection team showed up for a couple days on schedule and everything was fine. (You can tell its a fake when money pours into the DOW and yet Treasury yields drop.) This was a week after the biggest short squeeze in history, 5x the previous best where the national team absolutely hammered the pyjama traders and no one said a word. I went out that night and sat at a bar for an hour. Didn’t hear it mentioned once, the waitress hadn’t heard it said either. Amazing. So much faith and credit.

At MOA I read something about 200 US casualties in Gouda and a number of western prisoners. That pocket was not meant to be disrupted any more than crossing the Euphrates. Yet here we are. Looks like Erdogan is temporarily off the Manbij express, but it cannot go on forever. There will be no detente until Syria is united. There may be stalemates, but no one can justify the US existence in Syria and the Chinese hold the swing vote on escalation. Bolton is like throwing the war party a concrete preserver. Another rope and just enough leash for them to hang themselves united? I’m guessing Bolton is just simple enough to guarantee the MIC follows the DNC’s suit. I mean, poison gas again? That is peak thinking?

Credit You get “cred” when people believe (credo) you could pay them back.

Both faith and belief in a bunch of child-sacrificing, blood drinking Luciferians that have abused the Bonds of Faith and Credit of the entire world that they patently couldn’t CARE less about…..is running mighty low, presently.

Precious metals have thousands of years of history as an accepted means of exchange, and especially since the Age of Electronics, silver’s intrinsic value as a conductor in electronics changes things, significantly. Before silver and gold were mainly ornamental outside of their monetary roles.

Desires, but not necessities, outside of their monetary functions.

Now, it is possible that silver may break out of its traditional 1 to 10 value ratio with gold, but I don’t know. That ratio gets distorted wildly and right now it is more like 80 to 1……$1350 to $16….so silver would seem to have a lot more upside…from that view of things…. What I do know is that if that even if it (1 to 1 valuation) were to happen, it is likely that silver would have more of a strategic industrial role than a national bank reserve asset role…..which would probably still be fulfilled by gold….if the reported actions of China and Russia in regard to accumulation of gold reserves….are true, since they will have an increasing say in tha matter…unless divided and conquered by the Ponzi Pirates of the AZ Empire.

In any case the capitalizations of both metals even at current prices suppressed by rigged futures trading is in the trillions or dozens of trillions (of dollars…for as long as that metric has any meaning…..) whereas all crypto currencies together have only achieved 326 billion, as of today.

And are only in their infancy. But getting stronger and better understood by the hour.

Bitcoin (short for “blockchain as applied to money” or “any and all increasingly adopted crypto currencies” are different tools in a “Means of Exchange Toolbox” now available to individuals, anywhere there is cell phone service is a tool of different capacities and characteristics than the other tools in the tool box……none of which are as convenient as paper money or credit cards….until those two conveniences no longer function.

In some places the plastic was never available to the population….and in many cases the paper bills in people’s pockets lost all value. This will also happen with failed cryptocurrencies. But historically, it will ALSO happen to your fiat (Dollar, Euro, Pound, etc if many hundreds of other fiat currencies in earlier times are any indication.

http://www.thebigresetblog.com/ The Dutchman’s (William Middlekoop’s) book The Big Reset has an appendix that lists all the world’s fiat currencies, in known history. The list of those that died or reset 100 to 1 or more after having been destroyed by inflation is mathematically converging on 100%……as time goes on.

But very possibly not with the algorithmically uninflatable cryptocurrecnies that expand in utility and usage primarily by cutting costs of doing business in ways that do not apply to silver or gold….or FIAT. Since that IS a new invention…that cannot be uninvented or destroyed in the same old way.

I think that’s the crucial distinction and why people should avoid the Either A or B Mental Trap.

Why accept such a mental straight jacket???

Wouldn’t you prefer having your choice of A,B,C, D, E, F……….X,Y Z????

And a great deal of wealth can be carried between your ears onto an airplane, by memorization of a randomly created, unique twelve word sequence (the “seed” that can regenarate a Bitcoin or other crypto “wallet”…completely from scratch) and taken with you anywhere.

This is not possible with a million dollars worth of silver or gold or even 50K worth, unless you own the aircraft…AND can avoid going through customs.

Some people get fanatical and religious about these things.

I find Dan Larimer (Of Bitshares, Steemit and EOS) more level headed and realistic. He observed that sometimes “decentralization” is an appropriate application to a situation….. and sometimes it isn’t.

Ergo, the mantra of “decentralization” that the crypto community absolutely loves and believes in, and intends to defend to the death (Of FIAT and the “Federal” Reserve and Private Central Banks everywhere!!! …..you want these nerds on your side….LOL….) is not exactly appropriate to national defense which most probably will have to exist a few more decades (or centuries) until the earth is filled with nothing but fully enlightened beings.

My dear Friend, as i told in the past Cafe, I consider myself as an extremist – I use to jump from one extreme to another and between, I’m not alone with such an experience, many are “swimming” in the same pool very few wants to accept this as a fact of a thinking human behavior (just read Dostoyevskiy and many others)
Therefore, as you know ( and anyone who follows the Cafe) I understand the revolutionary effect of the Cryptocurrency at a certain limit. Why I’m saying that ? Because the crypto’s have a counter-effect on the System put in place by the Empire. If this is not true, the the Empire – with his branches in the monetary world organisations would not be so eager to get rid of the crypto’s. By saying this, it also worth to note – which is not a surprise to nobody here – that the same Empire, according to his old and new manifestations, is doing everything possible to stop this “monetary revolution” with the same methods used everywhere : infiltrate and disrupt. Personally, I’m too poor to be part of this kind of “revolution” but if I had the possibility, there is a real reason. Now, I know, many will ask : ” are you with Christ or against, because money is the sine-qua-non of sin” Didn’t said Jesus Christ ” pay your duties to Caesar and to God” ? As a person who is living on this world, I have to pay my bills here, as a person (soul) who is part of a greater realm, I pay the “bills” for that world. If I’ll be already in the Heaven, I wouldn’t be obliged to pay for the earthly things because i’m not living here. With my little money here – as a living person in spirit and flesh – I can help others in need here – giving the Caesar what belongs to him – as the old, poor woman did in the example given by Jesus (those who know, they know what I’m talking about)
The curse of Money comes with the exploitation of others and that is sin.

Blockchain cryptocurrency.
If the Rothschild central bank system and subservient governments were truly against it, it would not exist.
It is in the experimental and development phase.
CIAcurrency.
There is no real ‘cryptocurrency’, it can all be tracked and hacked.
Its brief history is a story of malfeasance and fraud. Mt Gox a prime example.

The entire underlying purpose of electronic currency is the machinations of a subtle agenda plan marching us into a global one-world electronic banking and currency.
The Rothschild BIS and central banks will control it.
A means to achieve controls over the entire world economic system. To determine who can buy or sell, exclusively, instantly, and completely.

“Due to the many criticisms and changing methodologies of the consumer price index as a true measure of inflation, we use the price of gold as a very good proxy of the true value of a dollar over long periods of time. ”
— Morgan Stanley April 2018
(currently cornering the silver market)

The effort will be to tie cryptocurrencies to gold, precious metals (PM’s), commodities, and the current SDR (Special Drawing Rights) international banking medium of exchange. Founded on those above economic valuations – transformed and maintained in a standardized international electronic currency.
This would tie the value of electronic currency to commodities held in ubiquitous monopoly by central banks.
Commodities futures prices are already controled and manipulated by international banking.
The future international electronic currency would remove the control of sovereign nations (governments and people) over their economies and currencies, and hand it over to international banker autocrats.
Rollout and implementation after the dollar crash will include a universal biometric human implantable electronic chip ID system. This is already in the intermediate stages in India as a test case scenario.
It would make all persons subjects to central banks for their finances, money, banking, investments, security, travel, identification, internet and information access, buying and selling.
On the precious metals evaluation.
I have watched the PM prices succumb to western banking manipulation for over 30 years. The tide is steadilly turning to Asia and its massive accumulation of physical PM’s. Since China’s PM price fix, the Comex manipulation is requiring vast transfers and expenditures, heavy leveraging of paper PM issuance and contracts. The Comex does not even have 0.1% to cover physical in a margin call on paper contracts and demand for physical delivery. A recipe for panic, capitulation and force majeure in an economic or currency devaluation or crash.

“Real money is Gold and Silver. Paper money only started having value because it used to be backed by gold several decades ago. Now it’s backed by nothing except mass delusion and geopolitics.

Since the 2008 economic collapse, central banks around the world have overdosed on financial stimulus and printing money out of thin air. They have artificially suppressed the prices of gold and silver to keep the dollar delusion going.

On April 19th 2016, China locked in the dollar’s death by launching their own gold price fix. For the first time in modern history there are now two prices of gold, one in the Chinese yuan and the other in the dying dollar.

If the West were to raise the price of gold, it would kill the dollar completely as it would prematurely instigate the inevitable mother of all safe haven panics.

If the East were to raise the price of gold, it would drain the West’s gold reserves due to arbitrage. This would expose the West’s fake gold market and kill the dollar. Doing this prematurely means the East could no longer buy gold for themselves at heavily undervalued prices for their post-collapse monetary dominance.

The eventual endgame is that the price of gold skyrockets and the dollar permanently collapses along with the global banking system and modern society as we know it. Black Friday will be everyday as the masses murder each other for a peach pit. This is sure to happen anytime between now and the end of 2018.

My footnote to that quote…
The collapse is engineered by the bankers to cause such a historically unparalelled crisis that it will bring humanity begging on their knees for a solution.
The ready solution is already being prepared. One world government, one world electronic currency, one chip in each to “bring them all and in the darkness bind them”.

I have no doubt that that is the plan, cooked up by some deranged, power-mad ‘elite’ types (psychopaths all). Our only hope is that the implementation does not go as smoothly as the theoretical plan and gets derailed at some point.

From my favourite Rabbie Burns poem:

But Mouse, you are not alone,
In proving foresight may be vain:
The best laid schemes of mice and men
Go often askew,
And leave us nothing but grief and pain,
For promised joy!

One minion
I remember that from a literature class many years ago. The theme that we are powerless and pitiful in the grand scheme, yet somehow things seem to turn out OK for us as individuals and overall… in the grand scheme. Especially when the grand scheme fails, as it is currently.
Since I am in the belly of the empire, my pessimism and angst tend to overshadow hope. Growing up in the 70’s such great hope and aspirations, admiration for my America, naieve dreams and beliefs based on all the positive aspects that the US had embodied in its history. The grotesque evil now entrenched in the leadership, makes it difficult to even remember those finer carefree days of youth. Thanks for the reminder and poem.

When Civil authorities wear camo… Well geewhiz… I do wonder at the signs from the Celestial State

So much for the Theodore Roosevelt showing the flag an all that stuff. Xi got the hammer and is showing it.

Meantime Lavrov did a victory lap on RT over the fake gas attack…some men of the ground must be very good soldiers to pull this off. It was a race to get ahead of the fake stages gladio intelop of gas and poison.. Sure Skirpal affair is part of a wide and lengthy operation…

What we see is Kerry’s “Plan B” failing in ruins. The Red force got there first an exposed the lie.

Kindly accept generous offer of Win, Win Win…..because we not open to acceptance of your alternative of West Win…and Win….and Win Again…….but East Lose and Lose and Lose again.

We majority now, and not just in population. Also in future potential to win more friends and trading partners experiencing benfits of Win, Win, Win. You invited to also join majority on equal terms! No hard feelings!.

You practiced humiliation of East and South. We not interested in any humiliation of anyone……or BY anyone. So consider wisely, please.

If the political arm of the 1% has decided to go for broke with this attack on Russia then the last thing they are worried about is those window dressings of power— elections, being seen as “kindly” to their population especially surplus, costly older pensioners etc.

Operation Dumb Ass is part B of Operation Screw-bal followed by Operation Eat Crow.–part C.

If the msm is demanding a bombing response to the alleged chemical attack, what part of London should be targeted? How can we do that with minimal loss of life to civilians? Could we help civilians leave the City before hell rains down upon them?
(If my wife reads this…it is sarcasm. Shutka.)

As a resident of London, it should be the square mile of the City where all the financial houses are based. It is already ‘ringed with steel’ and has its own police force and governing bodies that answer to nobody except the City.
I don’t fancy being vapourised any time soon but I wouldn’t beg Mr Putin to stay his hand should he so decide. I am in agreement with him that a world without Russia (or any other country for that matter) is not a world worth staying alive in.
The human evolution experiment would have run its course and proved itself a complete failure and deserving of whatever it gets.

Here’s a lovely song, used as the soundtrack to an Oliver Stone film, ‘Natural Born Killers’ :

But, but, but, we have the shrill war mongers, zionists all, graham, mccain, et al screeching, moar bombs, moar missiles, send a msg about not abiding with a chemical wpns atk, etc. (which BTW, may not occurred or if it did, assad did not do it).

Then we have the admiral, who they wound up to say, “we cannot exit the world, blah, blah. That is the standard talking script, if we pull out, we are going isolationist, we not not engaging in the world, trade, relations, etc.

It is just so much bull sheeet but unfortunately people are swallowing it with the help of the zionist bugles, washpost, nyt, et al.

To state the obvious, need more sachs, more tucker carlsons, giraldi, buchanan, less trump tweets, less bolton (duh), less pompeo!

Ioan, sorry I am not so good to write by myself a good poem to replicate to your beautiful poetry. But I think maybe you can like Charles Baudelaire (“le fleurs du mal” is the best known). As “decadent” it’s better to read him in French language, for musicality, but I have found this site with a translation in English:

Thanks Prisoneer6 for your tips, back then I learned French in the school, (sadly I forgot a lot mainly the gramatique) Baudelaire, Verlaine and Rimbaud were also taught but today I see them with other eyes of course.

When I think about Trump, I think about Stephan Verkhovensky lamenting to the narrator, Mr. Govorov, “We won’t know what’s going on until it’s too late”

Compared with Hilary, Trump was a godsend– just as Obama was a godsend given the alternative, McCain. But we as observers do not know what has been wargamed. Surely those “in the know” could not be oblivious to the possibility that HRC unsympathetic and uncharismatic as she is, might be “a bridge too far” for the American people (as defined by the electorial process). Surely a lot of thought and effort has been devoted countering the Vietnam syndrome. Could the Monica Lewinsky impeachment scenario be– how shall I put it?– a dry run– when the other shoe drops on Trump’s sexcapades? Another point to consider is that every time the Empire goes to the brink and then pulls back, such becomes normalized.

Movie Time … setting is Soviet Russia around 1920.
The following movie is an experience of emotions amid contrasting landscapes, so enjoy such a film as one enjoys paintings of sand-scapes and sea-scapes … behold all … absorb the scenes and don’t rush anything. The overall impression will be lasting.
A young woman’s communist ideology destroys her life is the essence of this film which is a surprising revelation to behold in a Soviet film. Made in 1956 – colour – English subtitles.
Title – “The Forty First”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMmwgEwsPd8

Dramatic, beautiful scenes, the deep expressive faces of actors, the warm and cold colors accompanied with the music which jumps to the extremes as the feelings of those people and the ever living nature, all showing us the high artistic quality of Russian (Soviet) film makers.
Thank you for giving us, yet again, a very good tip (with the links on the right) !

One of the most moving films I have ever, ever seen is Takashi Miike’s “Hara Kiri”. Prepare to be devasted, and consider for a moment to be in the position of the protagonists in this masterpiece ( I then checked out Miike’s other films but they do not measure up to this one ). Life throws us curveballs, to be sure, but this is something that we can barely imagine. Available on video, Wu Xing collection.

I’m taking the liberty to post a poem from “Open Secret”, a book of translations of Rumi poetry, by John Moyne and Coleman Barks, w/out the author’s consent. Coleman has given me permission to quote some of his translations before w/out any payment. The poem in question seemed pertinent in these days of high tension, which I believe to be about surrender, acceptance. As we go through life, we tend to accumulate more and more, and any material object we can let go of is liberating, but I believe Rumi is essentially referring to the ego, or mind. The entity within that loves flattery, to preen itself, etc. Love the metaphor where he compares the head, our “intellect”, to a pistachio nut, lol!

Silver Coins

Put your cheek against this drunken cheek
Forget anger and men planning war.
When I hold out silver coins, take them, and give
me a cup of liquid full of gold light.
You can open the wide door of the sky.
Surely you will open me. All I have
is this emptiness. Give it a nickname.
Breaker and healer, break and heal this head.
Don’t press your seal to that pistachio nut.
Put it here. There is that in me
that has to be told fifty times a day:
Stop hunting. Step on this net.

Just a memory ramble to 1950s smalltown, USA. Every day our Irish Catholic nuns led us students in prayer for the conversion of Russia via the intercessation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Seems that Russia largely now has christian faith and values, while the US is more atheistic. I sure do miss the humbler people of those days. Though I don’t believe in religion now, if one had to be taken, one of the Orthodox Christian enterprises would be my choice.

… well the western churches are full of corruption and are silenced politically by tax and rate free deals on their properties. The Buddhists have shown they can be extremely aggressive and are too quiet when some shouting is really needed. Also I would not wish to kneel five times a day on a prayer mat, so this leaves the Russian Orthodox church as a viable politically unifying overall option for the greater good. Why not !

If we consider that the origin of the word “religion” is “to re-tie” or “to reconnect”, then we must accept that true religion is wholly an inner phenomenon, ie; occurrs within the heart of the individual. Outer religious institutions invariably become encrusted with the concern of survival of the institution on the physical plane, and the focus of the leaders invariably becomes physical survival of the institution, instead of spiritual welfare of their respective flocks. There are still many good leaders out there of course, though the quality varies wildly. I forget the origins of this story, but there was a meeting once between Christian and Buddhist delegations, and the leaders of each, the clerics so to speak, could not agree on the shared aspects of their respective doctrines/dogmas, whereas the monastics were able to get along w/out any problems. In any case, God has provided countless religious paths, incl. atheisim for the countless states of consciousness on earth today.

Hopefully you have had some succus there. For myself, it was not rubbish, but training myself to focus my attention. Attention’s intention that goodness come to a group of fellow humans. Or a lower rung on a tall ladder.

No success at all I’m afraid, nothing is ever forgotten, just buried under newer events.

Those Jesuits sure know how to indoctrinate but have no control over the later uses to which the indoctrination is put. My attention training had no object, just the training of attention, hence no desire at all to proselytise or convert since I have always found it abhorrent myself.
For me that is freedom.

There’s a poem in every heart
A star in every stone
Strike the stone with a hammer
Fragments fly in the blast
A broken stone rejoices
To see the shining star
Break the heart in pieces
Fragments fall to the floor
A broken heart’s released
A new poem laughs with joy

CONGRATULATIONS!! To the Russians for their restraint and performance of the basic principles of “The Art of War”.
Timing was perfect. Firing of a 100+ obsolete missiles at empty warehouses etc. on THIS day, couldn’t have been better for all of us.

THEY were cornered, and had not many options, other than try this pathetic move to “save face”.

… how about this … !
The US dispatched the USS Harry S. Truman, a massive Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, to a tour of Middle East on Wednesday as tensions between the US, Russia, and Syria reach a boiling point over a pending US strike.

Carriers present serious strategic problems…easy enough to damage and make an Nth carrier (or any surface ship) unable to fight. Not easy to sink…and why would anybody sink a carrier? The burden of costs both in terms of military potentials diverted to save the damage ship(s) is greater if they are only damaged. The same cruel logic applies to infantry combat – shoot to wound and the opponent has to tie up several men getting the wounded man out of the action – and often you can wound some of the fellas doing the rescues…

However carriers are iconic. Pictures of smoking ruined ships inflame the emotions and make reasoned logical actions difficult or impossible. That is their strategic significance… attacking a carrier or any surface ship is liable to have unforeseeable consequences. In this respect they are not obsolete.

Of course, it does happen that ships have accidents…hit ” lost or stray, leftover mines”, that sort of thing… And the provenance of such accidents is often unknowable.

History suggests that crews will become mutinous as the moral poverty of Empire becomes impossible for the men to ignore . That was what happened in Vietnam, and in Odessa and elsewhere in Russian Revolution, and where ever conditions exist that create revolution. Recent accidents at sea reveal already ripe situation. Poor performance of weapons in recent attack may be related to poor performance of crews and faked tests…there’s money on the table to incline faking tests, too…

Meantime I see that nifty “cruise missiles” are up to $1,750,000.00 each…

“Uuuuum good. Send more”

Sun Tsu opined: He who wishes to fight must first count the cost. When you engage in actual fighting, if victory is long in coming, then men’s weapons will grow dull and their ardor will be dampened. If you lay siege to a town, you will exhaust your strength. Again, if the campaign is protracted, the resources of the State will not be equal to the strain. Now, when your weapons are dulled, your ardor dampened, your strength exhausted and your treasure spent, other chieftains will spring up to take advantage of your extremity. Then no man, however wise, will be able to avert the consequences that must ensue… In war, then, let your great object be victory, not lengthy campaigns.
– Sun Tzu, the Art of War Quotes

To add to this train of thought.
I have the optimism that many here have, to sustain myself amidst the western decay. But my studies and sober contemplation require offering the pessimism borne from the long history of this current era of irresponsible destructive empire.

Why a major false flag is required for the next phase of war operations.

Mind control psychological operations for inducing mass trauma-based events, which emotionally overwhelm rational thought. Events which can be repeatedly reproduced through mass media, recreating and reinforcing the original trauma.
911
The false flag terrorism event that hijacked an entire nation to implement a surveillance police state and guarantee endless war. By simply inducing and re-inducing trauma and then tying it to the pre-planned solution of the ‘neccessary’ and ‘just’ wars of aggression against nations that were innocent of the original trauma-harm. Reason, logic, rational thought, skepticism, investigation… all casualties of traumatic mind war. Perpetual psyops sustain cyclical trauma that effectively overwhelms minds.

Assuredly, the next false flag is already prepared and awaiting execution. The time is excruciatingly right for it.

Iranian terrorists detonate nuclear dirty bomb in New York City killing 430, injuring 2700. Radiation panic as two million evacuate, fleeing the city. Scenes of mass pandemonium and death. US and its allies vow immediate retaliation. Markets, banks and exchanges will be closed until next week.

As we”ve recently learned…
full spectrum domination of the Western media,
AI level censorship,
coupled with docile and short attention spans
have made illegal unillateral arbitrary military attacks a new option.
Declare the culprits.
Announce the strikes.
Nevermind the evidence.

The above Iranian example false flag scenarios are purposeful.
I suspect Iran is next for many reasons.
Bolton, PNAC, Israel, neocons, axis of evil, the Russia-China-Iran oil bourse, strategic location, items forefront among a long list.
Desperation.
The next proxy war with Russia after a Syria escallation and denouement.
It will require a big psyop trauma to propel the war-weary masses forward with flags.

The the propaganda realm they have “invested” in is the scary poisons…best bet is a “chemical weapons attack” (quite possibly entirely genuine with really dead people).

Of course the main holder of such diabolical stuff is uncle sam…uk, zion…etc

I doubt they’d sink a modern carrier, but they have shown in NYC what they are willing to do to worthless fodder units – they politely call them “citizens”

Interesting the illustrious criminal operation in Syria was done (they say) by France, UK, and US. These make up a word “FUKUS” that Moon of A seem to think is descriptive.

Agree with proposition that the failed attack on Syria will be repeated after another fraudulent event.

Everything bigger and better next time?

S300 is advance reply. Will the captured agents of UK/US/ etc be put on trial? Public confessions? (I know a former SAS guy – who drinks, and talks – and I am sure that Syria/Ru has caught a gaggle of them…)

Paul opines that Ru spared the sailors of the fleets. True, but strategic. If there is a next time…no more Mr Nice Guy, I expect.

Thus –

Mutiny is simmering…give it time. Comrade P knows how to create a Mutiny. Donal Cook…many signed a round robin. This is in the ucmj considered mutiny. look it up…

Last functioning agency of failed state is military. Last act is looting. Always Mutiny is a natural part of this. Inescapable. Awful.

My intuition and suspicions based on where we’re at, where we’ve been, and where we’re going is that the MIC, thinktanks, ZIOCONS and bankers controlling the deep state need their next 911. As you express:
They want to scare
they are diabolical
there are grumblings of mutiny
and their economic game is at its end
The last gasps of empire will be military death throes.
So of course I anticipate another large-scale false flag.
I find it ironic twist of fate that Israel’s war raging and big tits for small tats will likely now earn it S300’s next door.
A fine example of how misdeeds always come back around to bite one.
Yanking the bears tail.

Good day.. Comrades.. Just a comment on the matter of The Donald’s vehicle ‘Twitter’… After a couple of years & 67,000+ tweets. The gormless @ the wheel there have booted me off .. I dared to point the pinky @ the cowardly, vicious, zionist-jewish, vandals that continue to displace, abuse and murder the Palestinian peoples..

You’re right, the attention has shifted, the Palestinians are facing the same “treatment” , the death toll is over 30 people as far as I know. The drama and tragedy continues, their voices are screaming in the desert…swept away by the noises of war…

… I’ve been thinking … 6,000 personnel … “sitting ducks !”
” The supercarrier can accommodate approximately 90 aircraft and has a flight deck 4.5 acres (1.8 ha) in size, using four elevators that are 3,880 sq ft (360 m2) each to move planes between the flight deck and the hangar bay. With a combat load, HST displaces almost 97,000 tons and can accommodate 6,250 crewmembers.”
USS Harry S. Trumanhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Harry_S._Truman

“My initial conclusion last night, based on social media, was (mostly) correct

“The only mistake is I thought S-400 missiles were used. Instead, S-200 and less expensive missiles were used. There is a false claim that only 12 cruise missiles were hit. In fact, 12 cruise missiles were shot down defending ONE base, which equaled 100 percent of what was fired at it. Sub sonic cruise missiles are obviously useless against Russia’s missiles.

“I am going to stick with my assessment that something big was going to happen that caused the U.S. to stop the attack. All the cruise missiles could report their status to the launch site, and the U.S. was sitting there watching them vanish before they reached their targets. “reporting back” was early 90’s tech, that the cruise missiles had even then. So it would have been ominous to watch them vanish, And then suddenly, Russian planes were in the air, preparing to attack. That did happen, regardless of whatever any claims are. And within 20 minutes (before they reached their targets) it was suddenly announced that the attack which was supposed to last for days was suddenly over, after only about an hour. Something big happened, and no one is saying what. My guess is that Russia made the right threat. Here is the next day report from RT:

“‘The majority of rockets fired in Syria by the UK, US, and France were intercepted by Syrian air defense systems,’ the Russian Defense Ministry said. Russian air defense units were not involved in repelling the attack. The warplanes and vessels of the US and its allies launched over 100 cruise missiles and air-surface missiles on Syrian civil and military facilities, the ministry stated.

“The strikes were conducted by two US ships stationed in the Red Sea, with tactical air support from the Mediterranean and Rockwell B-1 Lancer bombers from Al-Tanf coalition airbase in Syria’s Homs province, according to the statement.

“Syrian Al-Dumayr Military Airport, located 40 km north-east from Damascus, was attacked by 12 cruise missiles, the Russian MoD confirmed, adding that all missiles were intercepted by Syrian air defense systems.

Ok Russia. You have handled well the Senile Dementia of Empire, from Salisbury to Syria, in the operational realm of centralized authority, namely government and armed forces sober, firm response to hysterical hallucinatory accusations and unhinged projection.

That was and still is the priority.

However there is now enough relief from all this Strategy of Tension by The Powers That Were….to introduce a new Russian in the opposite realm…that of the decentralized realm of the individual and smaller communities functioning through open source, distributed public ledgers……with potentially the entire rest of the world….of increasingly sovereign individuals…interacting however they individually choose to.

I don’t know the man’s name tonight, but his channel is called CryptoPortfolio and he also has a channel in Russian. Where he lives and works I do not yet know.

with clear enough English and excellent graphics. I subscribed to his channel, so might be able to come up with more information on him….later.

Forget the Lamborghinis and Maseratis. What I am looking for here is how people anywhere, but especially in Russia add to the Internet of Money evolutionary change. in terms of how that perhaps minor but intriguing flank shapes the Coming Big Monetary Reset.

I focus more on EOS than any other crypto project because intuition and the lack of time to study all the principal contenders points me in that direction.

And, even though it only becomes operational as a platform at the beginning of June 2018 it is already contending with Litecoin for # 5 in capitalization and has a 1 billion dollar warchest for jumpstarting EOS “Dapps”….that is business applications designed upon the easier to use—-for programmers—–most scalable (millions of transactions per second is the goal, the design…) platfrom cryptocurrency, EOS. Meaning (it seems to me) it has a shot at being # 2 (in place ot Etherium) in a year or two. Or conceivably even #1: Remember Dan Larimer’s non-public announcement…..around the EOS “shop” that EOS now “supports” Bitcoin. Which to my non-techie self indicates that its algorithm accommodates Bitcoin’s……but Bitcoin’s can’t and is never likely to be able to accommodate EOS’.

And if that intuition is not flawed, what IS the limit of EOS’ potential?? # 1 or # 2 is my guess…..but I am playing this table fast and loose……because I can. And hopefully that will encourage someone with more technical expertise to comment, and correct that guess.

My second and last post of italian music. I know that so many people in East Europe like it, expecially in Russia, so I would like to dedicate to the italo-russian old friendship, in these moments of darkness.

The order you put them here, is the order I like them. Thank you Prisoneer 6 for sharing !
(PS. why last ? the italian music palette is very very large, a few months ago I listened to italian music of the 20’s 30’s 40’s , including some military marches and including a very good variation of the Italian Hymn composed by Giuseppe Verdi – which I think is one of the best national anthem ever composed)

On the BZ issue, MOA has delivered at last a version of the Russia foreign ministry extensive enough to help a chemistry ignorant like me to figure out what happened :
-for the Switzerland lab, “novichok’ and “BZ have been all detected, the first one in “purity”, and the second one in its already weaponised (that is already prepared for application by addition of required components).
-OPCW found the “novichok”, also in its “pure” form, but nothing else wort of mentioning in its report.
Keep in mind that this last report, accurately put in question by Lavrov is kind of synthesis of more than one lab report. This synthesis taken alone is per se already damning for the British version since ‘novichok’ being very “volatile” cannot be found in the samples in its purity form 2 to 3 weeks after the facts. Now, what about the “BZ” that seemingly disappeared from all reports other than the Swiss lab’s. Ignorant of chemestry as I already said, I am sure of one thing nonetheless : “pour trouver, il faut chercher, on ne trouve pas ce qu’on ne cherche pas”. In other words, the other labs may have also seen the “BZ” components with or without connecting the dots beetween them to the point of drawing the conclusion of presence of an entire compound. Yeah, “with or without”… We will never know how much this was voluntarily or not. Scientists are usual workers depending of of bosses like the rest of us, and this particular function of uncovering truths still must be accomodated for at least nutritional reasons. That is why scientist sometimes tell just what they were asked for. Portdown is doing exactly that since day one. That is the difference with the scientists in the Swiss lab, searching any weapon, and finding them all. Is my interpretation correct

The scientists at Porton Down refused to finger ‘Novichok’ it was their mouthpiece CEO, a former salesman who delivered the negotiated and very carefully worded statement designed only to fudge the issue.

If Russia truly has a national banking system that wholly belongs to Russia, then why are the borrowing interests rates so high, especially for the Russian people ?
The USSR ran out of money in 1990, so why didn’t the USSR just print more money as the Western World does and survive ?
I honestly do not know, and would really like to know, so answers will be appreciated.

They became obsolete in 1945…but of course like all ethical matters, their construction and operations are circumstantial or situational…Marx, and Einstein too, and really most everybody else know ethics is situational…so what the situation? Carriers, as you observe, do get built… As to obsolete – see what happened to carriers when a near miss from a crude 23 kt bomb was detonated https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Crossroads#Aircraft_carriers

Crossroads included an underwater “shot” “BAKER”…so some ideas about the Russian super drone submarine H-bomb is horribly clear…read, and weep at the mere idea… these are KYAGB (kiss your axx good bye) machines…forget life if one is used.

So, Paul, I propose that your good question has obvious answer – After the gadget all weapons became obsolete, but man kept on building weapons…obsolete is, evidently, ah…”irrelevant” to their function. Which, for “FUKUS State”, is a smashing of undefended non-atomic targets and supporting the MIC fat cats – a sort of socialism for the ultra powerful rich, and the fellas in the factories building flying “restaurants” and missiles that are also obsolete, but cost 1.75 million bucks each.

China carriers? I have said before that ultimately Ru and Chin are going to have to prevent the release of awful materials from the US mainland, as chaos engulfs the collapsing empire..and the US itself…these Chinese carriers, and the Russian ones too, or their descendant ships, will anchor in the Chesapeake Bay and Frisco…

This is a very disagreeable prediction, but History and logic do account for the carriers a-building in the Heartland, the Earth Island States of Chin and Ru, and probably elsewhere too.

I was going to draw a comparison with cathedrals, often built over centuries by succeeding generations of stone-masons, but I quite like cathedrals of the medieval variety.
Have you seen Sagrada Familia in Barcelona? Still under construction since 1882 and gobsmackingly glorious to behold, even in its unfinished state.

My grandfather and a friend were safe when their ship was sinking near Egypt during the war. His friend had bought a fancy foreign coat and he went back onto the sinking ship to retrieve it after being told not to. He went aboard and never returned.
A Night to Remember (1958)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ftYho4K3FQ

In the prior wars – Serbia, Libya, Iraq – it was NOT the case that victim nation did not have air defense – they did. Libya, Iraq, Serbia – they all had similar 1970-s and 1980-s Soviet AD equipment as Syria reportedly used against the attack.

In all those cases however NATO used first few days to “Shrike” those AD units into oblivion. Then NATO used clear skies to comfortly hunt whatever they wanted to hunt. NATO quite reasonably never tried to attack ground forces of a nation which AD were yet turning and burning. NATO rationally first attacked AD network itself, and only after removing it from the battle it switched to phase two – destruction of the targets themselves.

I guess it was because Russia-Syria AD integration that NATO could no more tell Syrian (permitted) from Russian(prohibited) AD stations. NATO dared not to “Shrike” Syrian AD to tatters. And then low speed Tomahawks were easy game.

The difference between my reading of the primary difference cause and Smoothie’s is not that Syrian AD was somehow extraordinary good, it was usually good, but that Russia de facto prohibited NATO their phase one: dedicated and specialized strike against AD itself.

Rus MoD briefing has a list of targets attacked. For what i read there was not a one AD installation aimed at. And that was the principal difference. Russia barred NATO from using its most efficient pattern of bombing AD-less victim.

Well, there may be other explanations why NATO did not even try to pretend clearing Syrian skies for their Tomahawks. But the fact seems to stand: Syrian AD were not targeted by NATO in defiance with both common sense and lots of prior precedents, but somehow all talking heads seem to evade noting this dissimilarity…

Not an explanation, but observation. Is technically trivial to build “radar” that mimics, for about 1000 dollars, a genuine radar site. So attacker blows up a pulsed microwave source at a cost of whatever a radar-seeking missile and the mission launch costs. Essentially commercial MW magnitron and a generator…the HV to the maggi gets pulsed by a 555 timer…for example.

a million for the missile. a grand for the spoofing source…more or less.

Crude versions of microwave oven “radar source”, I have heard, was used with great success in Yugoslavia.

Can anyone confirm the use?

My point is that attempts to smash AD sites can be tricked into blowing up junk at vast cost.

Concealment is pretty basic to war, as we all know. And a specialty for Ivan.

I do not see evidence of this in the present Syrian example. But expect that it will at some point in time become ordinary.

I think the microwave tactic was employed by Iraq’s Hussien. I remember listening to a US General talking to media about attacking the same target five or six times. He then said they stopped hitting the target because it was getting expensive hitting the same spot and achiving no results………..hmmm.
Later I read somewhere about kitchen microwaves being used to spoof radar……………imagine a few dozen small generators, a trailer full of top of the line Samsung microwaves and half a dozen guys driving around the desert setting them up……..I wanna run that detatchment.

Anyone heard of this Frazzledrip video with Hillary and Huma that’s supposed to be circulating on dark web? I read about it on Jim Stone’s web site. I did a quick Google search for “frazzledrip” and while I was reviewing the search results I accidentally clicked on the Books tab and this super creepy book passage showed up. For anyone who’s interested take a look. Hope this is all some frivolous hoax but just in case, here’s the link.

A van jumps the sidewalk in Toronto, Canada today killing at least 9 people, injuring 16. Toronto police capture the driver with no shots fired. I look to the Toronto Police Twitter account for more, only to find that the area of the van incident — Yonge and Fitch — was also the area for the report of a missing person, Tracia Nelson, one hour prior to the van attack. So I type “Tracia Nelson” into Google and click on the Books tab. This comes up:
From Nelson Information’s Directory of Investment Research-
” The Group has mining projects in La Zarza, Salamon, Trives, Tracia and Salamanca which are located in Spain. The Group has mining interest for such metals as gold, silver, copper and tungsten. The Group operates in the United Kingdom, Spain and Morocco.”
The Group of Seven (G7) Foreign Ministers (I think) are meeting in Toronto today. ?? The front of the white van is shown with absolutely no blood or anything on it – not a drop. This vehicle collided with 20+ people?

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